AI helps discover vulnerability affecting up to 70% of websites

After developers, with AI assistance, discovered a vulnerability affecting up to 70% of websites worldwide, France, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands took government websites offline on Wednesday, and Japan's prime minister urged everyone to act that evening and apply the newly released fix. The co-founder of Google's Wiz cybersecurity team told The Wall Street Journal that this was the most serious vulnerability AI has discovered to date, and said that without AI, humans might not have been able to find it. A cybersecurity researcher told Reuters that AI would enable hackers to reverse-engineer the vulnerability, and that the public fix would trigger an "exploitation race," with hackers' next step being a large-scale compromise of all vulnerable web servers on the internet.